Welcome: Lions club will meet on Monday

Friday

Feb 1, 2013 at 12:01 AM

The Welcome Civitans will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Kerley's. Guest speaker will be Mark Hutson, who will present information about the North Davidson Booster's Club. For more information about the club and the work of Civitans, call 731-6024

By Marilyn HagamanCorrespondent

The Welcome Civitans will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Kerley's. Guest speaker will be Mark Hutson, who will present information about the North Davidson Booster's Club. For more information about the club and the work of Civitans, call 731-6024Lions will merge for hospital bingo partyWelcome Lions members will join members of West Lexington Lions for a bingo party for the veterans at the VA Hospital in Salisbury on Feb. 25. The veterans really enjoy the bingo party and the refreshments.Welcome Lions members have tickets for the next country style steak dinner at Center United Methodist Church fellowship hall on April 13. The meal includes country style steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, baked apples, homemade rolls, homemade desserts and tea or coffee. Tickets are $10 and will be presold only. Tickets are available from any Lions Club member, Bank of North Carolina in Welcome, or New Bridge Bank in Welcome. Scouts stay busyTroop 238 Boy Scouts Andrew Coppley, Cole Howard, Colin Seymour, Dalton Byrd, Garret Richardson, Jamie Ward, Joey White, Mason Hamilton, Owen Macias, Samuel Wooten, Taylor Aldridge and Will Walser went Geocaching and gold panning in the Uwharrie Forest Jan. 18 through Jan. 20. Scouts Andrew Coppley, Brett Dorwart, Colin Seymour, Garret Richardson, Joey White, Samuel Wooten and Taylor Aldridge went ice skating at LJVM on Jan. 21. Boy Scout Troop 238 and Cub Pack 238 will be participating in the annual scouting for food campaign on Feb. 9. Scouts will be placing bags on local mail boxes on Feb. 2 with a note requesting nonperishable food items be placed in the bag and returned to the mailbox by 9 a.m. on Feb. 9 for pick up. Donations will be given to Davidson County food pantries. Class will sponsor soup, sandwich meal The Fellowship Class of Beulah UCC will sponsor a soup and sandwich fundraiser on Feb. 3 after the worship service. Homemade vegetable soup, along with desserts, will be served. Donations will be accepted to help fund the class's mission project of supporting a family in Haiti. Community members are also welcome to enjoy this meal. Beulah United Church of Christ will host a Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper from 5 until 7 p.m. Feb. 12 and an Ash Wednesday Service at 7 p.m. Feb. 13. The community is invited to attend. Bethesda UMC members attend ministry eventThree members of Bethesda UMC were among 377 pastors and congregation leaders at a Stephen Series Leader's Training Course held Jan. 13 through Jan. 19 in Orlando, Fla. Debbie Berrier, Teresa Sink, and the Rev. Dennis Marshall attended the one-week training event hosted by the St. Louis-based Stephen Ministries organization. Participants came from across the U.S. and Canada to learn how to implement and direct Stephen Ministry, a system of Christian caregiving, in their congregations. Pilgrim Reformed will sell chicken piesA frozen chicken pie sale will be held at Pilgrim Reformed. Orders need to be placed by Feb. 10, and pies may be picked up on Feb. 23 or by appointment on Feb. 22. To place an order, call the church office 249-1951. Leave a message and someone will call for your order. The pies are $9 each and proceeds from the sale will go to the history/prayer room project.A new Sunday School Class will begin on Sunday for ages 18-35. The Pilgrim youth group is involved in the Souper Bowl For Caring, which is a youth movement to collect food and money for homeless shelters in the USA. This coincides with Super Bowl Sunday. On Sunday, the youth will be at the sanctuary doors at the end of the service to collect canned foods or money in their soup bowls. This will go to Crisis Ministries of Davidson County. An Ash Wednesday service will be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 13 with a light supper prior to the worship service. This will begin with the meal and service both in the fellowship hall. Prayers are neededThe community extends sympathy to the family of Millie Everhart Musgrave who passed away on Jan. 25.Celebrate milestoneHappy birthday wishes should go to John Raines, who turned 7 on Thursday. He is celebrating his big day tonight with his friends and family at a bowling party at the J. Smith Young YMCA. John is a first-grader at Welcome Elementary School. His parents are Chris Raines and Jill Doss-Raines and his brother is Wade Raines.Happy birthday wishes should also go to Matt Skulnik, who has a birthday on Feb. 3, and to Gray Hagaman, who will be "39" again on Feb. 4.

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